Imipolex

Jeffrey L. Meikle meikle at mail.utexas.edu
Sun Oct 1 14:02:46 CDT 1995


A further thought on the meaning of Imipolex.  Given that ol' Tom is a
sucker for a bad pun, and that Imipolex is the world's first erectile
plastic, how about Imipolex = imitation pole?  Might also be derived from
Mipolam, which was a real IG Farben trade name for vinyl--an often
fetishistic material.

--Jeff Meikle





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